1870.] Eeptilia and Amphibia from Central India. 359 



sometimes, in fresh specimens, yellow, with a red band along the 

 lower part of the side. These red and yellow colours were only 

 observed in spring. Length 4.5 to 5.5 inches. A large specimen 

 measures 5.7 : in this the tail from the anus is 3.6, forelimb and 

 toes 0.55, hind limb and toes 0.8, longest toe (4th) of hind foot 0.3, 

 next longest (3rd) 0.23 inch. 



Mr. B 1 y t h ' s original specimen was supposed to be from Bang- 

 pur. It is doubtless the same to which Dr. J e r d o n had al- 

 luded in the same volume of the Society's Journal (VoL XXII, 

 p. 479, note). Of the four specimens mentioned under this name by 

 Mr. Theobald in his Catalogue of the Eeptiles in the Society's 

 Museum, p. 24, three probably belong to a different species, the 

 coloration not agreeing with Mr. B 1 y t h's description. The 4th 

 specimen which is in very poor condition is evidently Mr. B 1 y t h ' s 

 type.* It is rather stouter than my specimens from Central India, 

 and the tail and limbs are a little shorter in proportion, whilst the 

 dorsal scales are very generally seven -keeled throughout, a few 

 scales only having but five or six keels. In the characters of the 

 head scales, and in the coloration, I see no distinction, and the num- 

 ber of scales round the body is the same, viz. 28. The Indian Mu- 

 seum has recently received other specimens from Assam and Ca- 

 char, which closely resemble Mr. B 1 y t h ' s type specimen. It is 

 thus evident that there is a slight distinction between the Assam 

 species and that inhabiting Eastern Central India, the difference 

 being similar to that found in JE. carinatus. It may be briefly ex- 

 pressed by saying that Assamese specimens have seven keels on the 

 dorsal scales as a rule, five as an exception, whilst in specimens 

 from Chhatisgarh and Udipur five keels are the rule, seven the ex- 

 ception, and that the latter form is rather more slender with longer 

 tail and limbs. I have unfortunately no specimens from Pegu for 

 comparison ; so I cannot tell if Mr. Theobald's Tiliqua multi- 

 carinata, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1868, Vol. X, p. 26, be the same or not. 

 Mr. Theobald has examined my specimens and is disposed 

 to consider them distinct. 



* I am indebted to Dr. John Anderson for pointing this out to me j 

 the specimen was in such poor condition, that I did not myself remove it from 

 the bottle, and having satisfied myself that the other three specimens could 

 not have been the types, I rather hastily concluded that the original of Mr. 

 B 1 y t h ' s description had been lost. 



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